The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



J. Horace McFailand Co., Photo 



A LIVING PILLAR OF FIRE, WITHOUT EXCEP- 

 TION THE FINEST ROSE OF ITS TYPE IN 

 THE WORLD— THE CLIMBING ROSE EXCELSA 



This superlative achievement of the hybridists' skill is a combination 

 of every good quality of the Crimson Rambler with elimination of 

 its every fault, and justly brought its originator, M. H. Walsh, the first 

 award made of the Mrs. Gardiner Hubbard Medal which is given every 

 five years for the best American Rose produced within that period 



